Quotes About Principles

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

But your way isn't just that set of rules," Cord said. "It's who you are — you follow that way for bigger reasons. And as long as you stay true to that, the confusion you're talking about will sort itself out eventually.

If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite.

What makes one Sumerian city better than another one? A bigger ziggurat? A better football team? Better me. What are me? Rules or principles that control the operation of society, like a code of laws, but on a more fundamental level. I don't get it. That is the point. Sumerian myths are not 'readable' or 'enjoyable' in the same sense that Greek and Hebrew myths are. They reflect a fundamentally different consciousness from ours.

As far as the laws of probability, my lady, these cannot be broken, any more than any other mathematical principle. But laws of physics and mathematics are like a coordinate system that runs in only one dimension. Perhaps there is another dimension perpendicular to it, invisible to those laws of physics, describing the same things with different rules, and those rules are written in our hearts, in a deep place where we cannot go and read them except in our dreams.

since they don't make a lot of money or get a lot of respect, you have to prove you're personally committed and that you don't care about those trappings.

If a thing is obviously right, do it. But remember to exercise extreme judgment regarding what you call "right" and "wrong." A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

Rightness" or "wrongness" is not an intrinsic condition, it is a subjective judgment in a personal value system. By your subjective judgments do you create your Self—by your personal values do you determine and demonstrate Who You Are.

If you board an aircraft built according to science—with principles that have survived numerous attempts to prove them wrong—you have a far better chance of reaching your destination than you do in an aircraft constructed by the rules of Vedic astrology.

To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled.

After an hour of blather, I started to understand Tyler Durden. Human interaction to him was a program. Behavior was determined by frames and congruence and state and validation and other big-chunk psychological principles. And he wanted to be the Wizard of Oz: the little guy behind the curtain, pulling the strings that made everyone around him think he was a big and powerful master of the realm. I

When you cheat at poker, life, or taxes, you've taken the honor and fun out of winning, and ultimately you've cheated yourself out of the finest pleasure in life: beating the other guy fair and square. That's what I was taught in school.

And so to seem like a regular guy and a good hire, I said, quoting Uncle Harry, "Whatever is not a crime is a business.

achievement to create the first modern insurance fund, based on correct actuarial and financial principles, rather than mercantile gambling.

government should be elevated into a living moral force, capable of inspiring the people with a just recognition of the fundamental principles of society;

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.